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' , NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. oieiiaieilanie JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPRIETOR, dollar uths, OF ab a tate of lay eed n flves mouths, Sui per {tion included, por year, free of post- Irafts on New ther of these le i N York or Post Oftice me tun be procured send tl Honey remitted at risk of s lion subseribers wishing th their old as well as their new ad 5 letters or te Yous Heian, hould he properly sealed, will not be returned, Letters and pac Rejected communica SOUTH SIXTH y YORK HERALD— EMEN'TS - faseraroere BOWERY THEATRE: PARK THEATRE—Dor._ LYCEUM THEATRE BROADWA STANDARD TI GLOBE THEATRE OLYMPIC THEAT GRAND OPERA HOUS GERMANIA THEATE SAN FRANCISCO MIN. THOMAS’ OPERA HOU COOPER I TONY P. EGYPTI WINDSOR THEATRE—Vatuer COURT SQUARE, BROOK BROOKLYN PARK TIL UARY 20, 1879, Lhe probabilit are thal the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and Fair, To-morrow it will be partly cloudy or fair, with rising temperature. Aysti-PoLyGamy Prririons are raining down on Congress as thi ‘k as snowflakes. Amone Locat Poxrriciays the interesting question seems to be, Are Tammany and anti- Tammany about to bury the hatchet? AnoTuter Man has mysteriously disappeared on one of the Fall River boats, making the second in two months. It really begins to look a little suspicious. Tur Ick-nounp Lakes and the snow-covered avenues, streets and drives, were yesterday alive with skaters and merry sleighing parties. Altogether it was one of the most enjoyable of winter days. Tue Cincurar of the underwriters calling attention to the danger of a great fire along our miles and miles of wooden picrs ought to arouse our slumbering authotities to the neces- sity of guarding in every way possible against such a disaster. Tue Texr of an important address from the Propaganda to the Catholic Bishops of this country is elsewhere printed. It prescribes how clergymen charged with offences against eccle- siastical law shall be tried, and marks a new de- parture in Catholic ecclesiastical discipline. Princeton’s Stupents have been behaving in a truly exemplary way lately, but the snow and the sleighing had such an exhilarating effect on twenty-five of them the other evening that it was found necessary to give them an opportunity to cool off in a Trenton station house. Mr. T. of what is called sensationalism in the pulpit yesterday was somewhat ingenious. Paul, he declared, was the first great sensational preacher. He upset everything and made a row everywhere he went. The resemblance between Paul and Talmage will not strike the majority of people as vividly as it does Mr. Talmage. Tne Rey. Faruer Frauerty yesterday se- verely censured the writers of the different com- munications to the HeRatp in regard to paying for hearing mass. They should, he suid, have complained to their pastor, and in that way ar- ranged the difficulty nicely and quietly. They probably thought that the better and more effee- tive way would be to ask the assistance of the Ilrnarp, and the result seems to show that they were not far wrong. Father Flaherty makes the further assertion that there is not and can- not be a cent charged for hearing mass; that to do so would be ‘an abomination.” What, then, is the charge for ? Tur Sermons Yesterpay, which aro else where reported, present an excellent spiritual bill of fare. Dr. Hepworth pointed out the value and cflicacy of ideals; Dr. Chapin ex- plained the myste: 3 Professor Adler inveighed against superstition, and the Rev. Mr. Sweetser endeavored to arouse his hearers to the necessity of saving our American Sabbath, At the Cathedral Father Kane se- leeted marriage as his theme, and Father O'Shea defended the Jesuits, their teaching and methods. The proper use of the body was elucidated by Mr. Frothingham, and the differ- ence between Christianity and the old religions by Mr. Beecher. Tue Wratuer. he barometer is high throngiout all the districts except over New England, where it is relatively low, as the disturban which extended over Nova Scotia ou Saturday has not passed entirely away, and in the extreme Northwest, where another depression is approaching. It is highest in the Lower Mississippi and Mis- souri valleys, where clear, cold weather prevails. The winds have generally brisk in all parts of the country e West and Southwest, where they ha’ considerably. Rain has fallen on the lantic coasts aud snow in the lake reg temperature has fullen decidedly th the country cast of the Rocky Mouuntai depression that has made its appearance in the Northwest is not likely to af fect the weather of our district very much during its passage, beeause the area of high barometer that overlics the southern and central districts will tend to direct its movement through the British Possessions to the St. Lawrence Valley. Some of the South- ern rivers are still rising, and floods are expected. ‘The weather is more favorable over the British Islands, the depression that ar- rived on Saturday, as stated in the special cable printed yesterday, having passed over. The Weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and fair. To-morrow it will be partly cloudy or fair, with rising temperature, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY,:JANUARY 20, 1879—TRIPLE SHERI. The Ministerial Crisis in France. An important debate in the French As- sembly is one of the events which recent experience has taught us to look forward to without any apprehension of those ex- cesses which in other periods seemed nat- urally to attend such occasions; and we believe it may be confidently predicted that what is said to-day in France will not inthe slightest degree disturb confidence there or elsewhere in republican principles as the only right foundation of good government, but will, on the contrary, prove that all the really capable men in public lite in that country have rallied to the side of the re- publican system, and that the other side is defended only by those who have vested interests in organized wrongs or by those so prejudiced by education and association that they are unable to judge clearly what is right and wise in the administration of authority. Our despatches have pointed out the dis- satisfaction with which the Ministerial dec- laration made the other day was received in the Chamber of Deputies. Somewhat an- alogous to our Presidential Message that de- livery is not precisely like it, inasmuch as the absence irom the declaration of any reference to some topics deemed of great moment by the majority has excited disap- pointment and provoked the assault, more or less fierce, that is to be made to-day ; while the absence of an important state- ment of intentions from a Presidential Message would never startle any one in this country, though its presence there might. Precisely why the republicans are dis- gusted with the government is plain and clear enough; they want to have a dis- tinct and practical recognition of the repub- lican system of government by the ma- jority, and the administration is obstructive, They want their overwhelming victory before the country to be made effective and produce, its fruits in the composition of the official world. They never go to the polls but what they sweep all before them. One Assembly is dissolved because the govern- ment cannot restrain its republican im- pulses, and, presto! another is elected more dominantly and aggressively republican than the first. Elections for replacing one-third of. the Senators take place, and out of eighty-one seats the re- publicans capture sixty-five; thus change the majority of the body to their own party and present the splendid spectacle for the first time in the history of France of two great legislative bodies brought into harmonious support of repub- lican principles—not by revolutionary methods, not by a sudden resort to the peo- ple on the heels of some bloody conflict with despotism, but in the regular course of popular progress, in the smooth experience of seven years of government by the peo- ple; an experience that all the prophets have said must at any time produce anarchy and chaos and disgust a rational people with self-government. As the result of all these sober and rational triumphs over pop- ular prejudice--and that prejudice culti- vated by the head of the State—the repub- licans claim that France is with them, and demand that the Executive shall recognize the state of public opinion and no longer obstruct the application of the popular will. But the Executive seems not to know what has taken place. It goes on as if it had not heard the news, or as if the point what may be the politics of the people did not concern it. It acts asif in the compo- sition ot the administrative departments the only element worthy attention in a re- publican government is a clique of irrecon- cilables, opposed to the Republic and determined to improve every occasion to obstruct its progress or defeat its purposes. In the presence of this indif- ference and contempt the republicans are like litigants for whom the jury has given a verdict and in whose favor a decree has been issued to which the clerk of the court will not give the validity of the neées- sary formalities. France has declared for them, but an old public functionary and his reactionary adherents stand in the way. “All the trouble,” says one of the Paris correspondents of the London papers, “‘is about patronage.” Patronage is one of the aspects of a subject that is far more impor- tant in some other aspects than patronage ever is; but as it is the side that scems to indicate sordid motives it is always held up as the conspicuous element in the case by those who are eager to cust odium ona party. Marshal MacMahon and his reac- tionary supporters want to hold cn to the permanent machinery of administration by keeping the offices filled with their crea- tures. They do not want the patronage; they want the chance it may give to.con- trol every department and functionary at a critical moment. But they shout that the others want these places only for the patronage, and they have a stentorian repeater of this opprobrious ery in the person of that Paris correspond- ent of the London Zimes who has carried to a ruinous limit the system of selling out the independence of a great journal for the small price of some slight facilities ex- tended io reporters, Any government in Europe that will throw the cold victuals of State information into a correspondent’s wallet can have the freedom of his columns for the circulation of the calumnies it may cast upon its opponents, Fortunately, that system tends to correct itself, as no journal ean afford deliberately to make its news worthiess. It is true that the republicans want the offices, but it is not true that they want to apply the spoils doctrine and merely grab for patronage. Offices are an important element of government-—its real machinery; and the republicans possessed of the poten- tial elements want to make the machinery satisfactory to themselves and to dis- place all tunctionaries who are conspicu- ously inimical to the Republic. If they did not do this they would fail in a part of their duty as representatives of the people. Should we compare their position in this respect to a victorious party here we should scarcely do them justice. An analogue to their position would be found if we could imagine the first Congress of the United States in presence of a President who in- sisted on filling all offices with old royalists and tories, But the Executive in France acts in the style of those Presidents of the Unitéd States—Tyler and Johnson—who have en- deavored to use their offices to obstruct and defeat the policy of a powerful party. Our Presidents, however, added ingrati- tude to folly, because they owed their places to the power they endeavored to ob- struct; but that element does not appear in the case of MacMahon. He simply re- peats a former inane blunder of his own by putting himself ina ridiculously un- tenable position—in a position trom which he will be driven with ignominy or forced to retreat with humiliation ; for the system ot Ministerial responsibility affords in France a means we do not possess of sub- duing obstructive and refractory execu- tives, One vote will destroy the Ministry that has lent itself to a foolish scheme, and another Ministry will understand the con- dition on which it may take office. Nordenskiold’s Voyage. In the Henaup to-day we give a transla- tion of the remainder of Nordenskidld’s ac- count of his progress in the Arctic seas, the first of which was published some days since in our correspondence from Christiania. The explorer says in this communication, dated August 25, ‘‘Until now everything has happened as we had cxpected. May our calculations still hold good, so that I this very autumn may have the joy of send- ing home a telegram from some harbor on the coasts of the Pacific Ocean.” ‘He had at that time made such progress that he an- ticipated apparently with much con- fidence that happy issue. to his ad- venturous attempt. But the autumn went by and the telegram from the Pacific never came, and it is to be assumed that Nordenskiéld did not get through, though there is, of course, the possibility that he did get through and was shipwrecked in the Pacific. Ships have been wrecked and not a word ever heard of them, though the event isa rare one. It is more probable that the Vega was caught in the ice on the Pacific coast and is blockaded there now, and the great feature of the winter with Nordenskiéld and his ship’s company has been a trial of patience and endurance. The special despatch from the Henraro’s Berlin correspondent, printed this morning, makes the important announce- ment that Russia will send a sledge ex- pedition to the rescue of the ice-imprisoned exploring party. Of course the. likelihood that they would be so caught was one of the possibilities contemplated when the voyage was planned. Nordenskidld’s theory was that the warm water from the Siberian rivers would keep the Arctic sea open on the coast line long enough for them to get through, but as the theory required to be proved the expedition was supplied with aview to the event of the failure of that theory, and is probably in good condition wherever it is. A Strange Case Recalled, Our special cable despatch from Queens- town announcing the release of Dr. Ker- win from the noted Spike Island Prison recalls one of the most remarkable criminal trials on record. Nearly a generation ago Dr. Kerwin, a Dublin physician, was charged with the murder of his wife, whose body was found in a hor- ribly mangled condition on the beach of a littlg island in Dublin Bay. As the evidence was wholly circumstantial, the accused a man of far higher social standing than sup- posed murderers usually are, and the coun- sel the best that money could employ, there was every reason for the protracted trial, attended by intense public interest, which was concluded by a verdict of murder in the first degree and asentence of death. The sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life. The cause of the pardon is not yet known ; but it is to be hoped that this is not another of the cases, far too frequent, in which circumstantial evidence has been found to have condemned an innocent man to misery for’nearly a life. The Black Hole of Onondaga. Ashort time ago the exposure of the in- human treatment ofinsane paupera in the Onondaga County Poorhouse startled the community and excited general indigna- tion. An unexpected visit of a committee to the insane asylum disclosed the fact that some of the afflicted inmates were confined in wooden cages in a dark, damp cellar, where they had no more accommoda- tions than are afforded to wild beasts, and where the poisoned atmosphere, which brought a speedy relief to their sufferings, was their best friend. An investigation by the State Board of Charities, demanded by the Henaup, is said to have worked an im. provement in the management of the Poor- house; but now comes another revolting revelation from the same unfortunate county. This time it is the Penitentiary which is found to be so shamefully mis- managed and made such a der of degrada- tion and indecency that Bishop Hunting- ton, in denouncing it, appropriately styles it the ‘Black Hole of Onondaga.” The disgraceful condition of the Onon- daga county institutions can be attributable only to criminal neglect of duty on the part of the officers in charge, or to parsimony and inhumanity on the part of the Super- visors, The vile treatment of the insane paupers was said to be occasioned by the want of space for their proper accommoda- tion. But the incurable cases could have been sent to the appropriate State asylum if the Supervisors had not begrudged the amount required for their support and taken advantage of a privilege extended to them under the law to kill off the unhappy burdens in short space at home, ‘The scandalous con- dition of the Penitentiary is also attributed to the meanness of the Supervisors, and unquestionably they must have been familiar with the want of room, air, light and accommodations demanded by decency, and with all the abuses alluded to by Bishop Huntington in our special Syracuse correspondence published in another column. Men who would allow such evils to exist unremedied are not fit to hold public office. Certainly they cannot be relied upon to make reforms, and the case is a proper one for the interference of the Legislature. Onondaga county isthe home of Speaker Alvord, and he wilt-be censurable if he does not promptiv nronosq an investigation into the facts and such legislation as will prevent a similar dis- grace falling upon his county in the future, Senator kling’s Re-Election, ‘The republican caucus for nominating a candidate for United States Senator is to be held this evening. There being no repub- lican candidate in the field against him Mr, Conkling will be nominated unanimously, and perhaps by acclamation, without the | formality of a ballot. ‘There are, no doubt, some republican members of the Legisla- ture who would oppose Mr, Conkling if it would be of any avail, but the friends of the administration and the particular friends of the present incumbents of the Custom House are not numerous enough to muke a respectable demonstration against him, and they will probably be unwilling to expose their weakness by giving the Conkling men an opportunity to count them. It is hinted in some quarters that the democratic members will make a formal protest against the legality of Mr. Conk- ling’s election, on the ground that this is not a valid Legislature. Even so influen- tial a democratic journal as the Brooklyn Eagle had a long, double leaded leading ar- ticle in this vein a few evenings since, in which it tried to convince itself that Gover- nor Robinson might be prevailed upon to refuse a certificate of Mr. Conkling’s elec- tion. The Lagle underestimates the good sense and logical consistency of the Gov- ernor. For if, by the long failure of @ new apportionment, this is not a valid Legislature why does Governor Robinson send it a message and try to influence its action by numerous recommendations? It cannot be a Legisla- ture for one purpose without being a Legis- lature for all purposes. If it can pass laws it can elect a Senator. The Governor would stultify himself by refusing to sign Mr. Conkling’s credentials after holding the ordinary official intercourse with this Legislature. The democratic members would equally stultify themselves if they should make a protest. If it is not a Legis- lature, why do they participate in its pro- ceedings? The Governor and democratic members would make themselves a laugh- ing stock if they should adopt such a course as our Brooklyn contemporary ad- vocates. ‘To the supporters of President Hayes in this State the re-election of Senator Conk- ling is a bitter dose, and it is to be seen whether they will swallow it without mak- ing wry faces. The administration has been waging wdr against him ever since it came into power, but the only effect has. been to make his triumph more resplen- dent. Last week Mr. Conkling made a speech in a secret session of the Senate in which he handled the President without gloves, and this week he will be elected to the Senate for the third time with less op- position and by a larger majority than ever before. It is difficult to conceive how Mr. Conkling’s great abilities could be more signally attested than by this shining vic- tory over his political opponents in both parties, Clean the Streets, The Street Cleaning Bureau has at last attacked Broadway, and this central thor- oughfare is now as clean as it might have been three days ago had the bureau ever devised a system of operating upon heavy snowfalls. Even by the extravagant, almost trifling, method of removing so light a sub- stance as snow in small dirt carts, Broad- way might have been cleared on Thursday night, during the quieter hours, instead of remaining heavy and wet to impede travel and injure health for three extra days. But Broadway is not a fiftieth part of the city roadways which de- mand immediate attention. What does the bureau propose to do about it? Can it devise no quicker, cheaper method of dis- posing of snow than to drag it half a mile or more in wagons or carts? If not, most of our citizens must resign themselves to the slush and ice that in other days have always succeeded great snow storms. The city owns or employs means by which the principal part of the snowfall could be melted and dis- posed of like any surface drainage. Many asmall boy knows how promptly a great deal of snow may be melted by a very little steam. Is there no one in the Street Clean- ing Bureau who is competent to experiment in this direction? If not, any public school can supply a boy smart enough to teach the Commissioners something. An application is about to be made to the House by the Potter Committee for an ap- propriation to defray the expenses of in- vestigating the cipher telegrams. It is re- ported that General Butler, who is a mem- ber of the committee, will avail himself of this occasion to make a speech against the investigation and of course against the appropriation. We trust that General But- ler’s wishes will not prevail. It is also re- ported that Mr. ‘Tilden desires the investiga- tion, and covets an opportunity to appear be- fore the committee and testify. It is fair that the opportunity be given him, but the pub- lic cares very little whether he is able to exculpate himself or not. ‘The Presidential election of 1876 is a dead question, and the fact that Mr. Tilden was counted out is deemed by the country at large, if not an adequate punishment for his political sins, as the only punishment to which he is ex- posed. If he attempted to bribe State offi- cers or Presidential electors in Florida, that was an offence against laws of that State which is outside the jurisdiction of the federal government. It is an offence which Congress may expose but has no authority to punish, for even if Congress should enact penalties they could not have a retrospective operation, since ex post facto laws are prohibited by the constitution, The investigation of the cipher despatches may or may not put new thorns under the pillow of Mr. ‘Tilden, and the public is quite indifferent; but the public is not indifferent to the means by which the despatches were procured for publication. Every citizen who has an occasion to use the telegraph is interested in the question whether there is any’ protection for the secrecy of messages, The most important duty of the committee which is to under. take this investigation is thot of ascertaining by what means the cipher tele- grams came into the hands by which they were translated and published. The par- allel is close between telegrams and sealed letters. Had a bushel or two of letters been rifled from the mails and printed in a news- paper no inquiry relating to them could be so pertinent or important as the question how they were obtained, When Sir James Graham, then Home Secretary, caused Maz- zini’s letters to be opened in the English Post Office, he was able to plead the author- ity of law, but even this did not prevent the wildest public excitement and indignation. The cipher despatches were notgtranslated and published by any public officer or by any person having the least shadow of title to their custody. It a court of justice or a committee of Con- gress had gained possession of them by subpeena in order to use them as evidence, and they had come into the lightsof pub- licity through such a channel, it would have been a very different state of facts from that which now requires investiga- tion, If those telegrams were voluntarily given up by the telegraph company it was a flagrant breach of trust punishable under the laws of this State by fine and im- prisonment. If they were pilfered from the company and sold to a newspaper both the thief and the publisher are liable to the same penalties, There is no known method besides treachery or theft by which the tele- grams could have passed from their proper legal custody. When the persons who ab- stracted them are arraigned for trial under the Revised Statutes no Court will permit the contents of the despytches to be pleaded in justification. It the mail or the telegraph is used for criminal correspondence there may be a legal and illegal way of ascertain- ing that fact. No privateindividual can act on his suspicions in either case without sub- jecting himself to prosecution asa criminal. If a man steals letters from the Post Office or publishes the stolen letters he is justly punished, without any regard to what they may contain, It would be ridiculous for mail robber to plead that a criminal corre- spondence is public property. Unless he ean point to some law authorizing him to seize and open the mails he cannot escape punishment. By the statutes of New York tampering with a telegraph despatch is an offence of precisely the same grade as the opening of a sealed letter. A Chapter of Mexican History. M. Masseras’ article upon the fall of Maximilian has called forth wide comment, and the facts which we publish elsewhere, contributed mainly by Don Juan de Dios Arias, private secretary to Escobedo, who captured Maximilian at Queretaro, have a special importance, While the relations of the Napoleonic Empire to Maximilian’s, and those of the United States government to the Mexican liberals under Juarez, have been often treated at length, it is well to have the acts recalled which show what was done by the Mexicans themselves toward the overthrow of the deserted Emperor. It may be too soon to finally pass upon the question of how much the withdrawal of the French, the attitude of the United States or the bravery of the liberals severally contributed to the event that was sealed when Maximilian was shot to death, but no one can say that to any one or two of them it is to be wholly credited. In the meantime all that can be learned upon the subject trom the pens of those who took important parts in it is of value. Whether, for instance, the whole scheme so costly to France and Mexico, and which begun the catastrophes of Napoleon ILL., grew out of the intrigue of a Swiss capitalist to col- lect asum he had loaned certain Mexican rulers for the time being, is a matter worth further investigation, The por- tion of the narrative we publish to-day relating the movements of the Mexican patriot battalions after the red trousered French army, minus its deserters, had dis- appeared from Mexican soil, will be found interesting, as well as that alluding to Mar- shal Bazaine’s experience in the grocery and drygoods line in the City of Mexico, Eng! ruggle. The struggle of capital in England to re- tain its hold upon the trade which fattened it has precipitated in turn a struggle of labor against capital. Cupital there sees no way out of its dilemma but that of cutting down the werkingmen’s wages. Labor in- dignantly retuses to believe that there is no other remedy, and asks tora cutting down of profitsinstead. ‘Chis has been the history ofa hundred strikes within the past six months in which capital has almost uniformly gained its point. After eating up their spare resources and finding capital still uncoerced the trade unions have in the end submitted to the masters’ terms, It is a brutal process, in which the masters em- ploy the wiapon of hunger and the trade unions that of financial ruin. In mines, fac- tories, furnaces and shipyards, on railroads and docks, the same battle has been fought and is waging. Labor succumbs, but whether even this will bring back the de- clining trade of Great Britain is very ques- tionable. When both labor and capital admit that the great day of England's com- mercial supremacy is over they must seek other lands over which the star of destiny is rising. Labor and capital must emiyrate. Our cable despatches this morning show that this conclusion is being arrived at, for the North Wales Miners’ Association has resolved to vote thirty-five dollars to such of its members as desire to emigrate to America und seventy dollars to those who would go to Australia. This is a be- ginning, but by and by the outpouring will be such that no laborers’ society could meet the expense. Capital as well as labor will seek opportunities upon the banks of the Hudson, the Passaic, the Connecticut and the Merrimac; for, no more than the la borer, can capital remain idle, and the balance now so rudely disturbed will be once more readjusted to the continuous accretion of America’s prosperity. The English Language Good Enough. The English language may seem to in- habitants of the British Isles to be good enough tor anybody, but on this side the ocean we have some thousauds of persons with pretensions to education and culture who make incessant complaint of the ver- nacnlar, According to these authorities the a, language lacks elegance and expressiveness, so at the slightest excuse they drop into some other tongue, that of France being for some inexplicable reason preferred. But now comes.a learned German, who, having for fifteen years studied the language with that systematic persistency which is a pecu- liarity of the ‘eutonic mind and the terror of all cthers, pronounces the English to be the most expressive, logical and gen- erally satisfictory tongue of modern Europe. Unfortunately for the fancies of the literary dilletanti: Dr. Weisse, the authority alluded to, has written a book upon the language in which he details his reasons so distinctly and with such an array of linguistic facts as corroborative evidence that no denial ia possible, and there is nothing left to do but make faces at this ruthless disturber of soft speech. It is to be hoped that the able linguist’s opinions may be spread so widely that young men of education and leisure will begin to study the literature of their own language instead of continuing their affectation of giving themselves to speech which is foreign to their tongue, their asson ciations and their nature. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The following Americans were registered at the Paris office of the Hrnatp on Saturday :— Boehm, W. 8., New York, Fox Hotel. Case, A. C., New York, Baviere Hotel. s Chapman, W. H., New York, Hotel de l’Athénée. Edelsten, W. and family, New York, No. 29 Bouler vard Haussmann, ‘ Heroy, W. P. and wife, New York, Hotel Chatham. Ludlam, Austin, Brooklyn, No. 7 Rue Bienfaisance. Mitchell, A. H., Cincinnati, No. 118 Boulevard Haussmann. Perry, Walter F., Washington, D. C., Hotel du Prince Albert. Puig, Emilio Ping Cassie, New York, Splendide Hotel. Robinson, Dr. W. S., Philadelphia, Pavillon Hotel Sands, A, H., New York, Continental Hotel, Sawyer, Rey. Dr., New York, Continental Hotel. Smith, Mrs, E. M., New York, Pavillon Hotel. Mr. Grant Thorburn has arrived from Europe. Seventeen per cent of the voters of Louisiana cannot write their names. The Marquis of Lorne and his wife will visit Niagara Falls incog. this week, Old John Robinson, of circus notoriety, owns @ deal of property at Atlanta, Ga. Dr. George H. Hepworth proposes to resign unless something is done toward paying the debt of his Church, * ASouth Carolina negro who thought of settling in Liberia wrote over to afriend there asking whether there were any coons in Liberia, Mrs. George B. McClellan, wife of, the Governor of New Jersey, is spending the winter in Washington at the house of her father, General Marcy. General Myers, usually called ‘Old Probabilities,” because he is at the head of the Signal Service, never made a speech in his life, and declines to do so now. ‘The agricultural editor of the Norristown Herald, in an article on “Saving Geese Feathers,” complains because tramps who steal geese always waste the feathers. Judge Kunts’ condition seems to have changed for the worse. He was very sick last, night, but his phy- sician says he does not consider that he is in any im- mediate danger. Sylvester “Scott, the California bear hunter, keeps twenty-five hounds; his time ‘out’ is usually @ fortnight, and he follows the dogs afoot. His usual luck is a dozen bears. In the summer he is a farmer. Several ex-rebel soldiers say that Grant’ can carry Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and both the Carolinas in 1880 if Tom Settle, of North Carolina, is on the ticket with him. They have a growing respect for Grant. Messrs. Bogardus and Carver, the great glass ball shots, have arival, a tramp who goes about Rock- land county. On Friday he, in just eleven minutes, got away with eleven hard boiled eggs and never missed one, and he was just as hungry at the end as when the match began. There is a discussion as to whether whiskey or na ventilation in the House of Representatives kills the vreatest number of men. The whiskey is very bad, and it adds nothing to the effect of the ventilation, But we fancy that cigars have as much to do with the deaths as anything. ‘The London World:—“When Lord Beaconsfield en- tirely marred the effect of the touching incident which he was enabled to relate, in the last sad calam- ity which has befallen our royal house, by a stilted tawdry reflection as to how the story could be told in @ poem, ina picture or ona gem, one of his col- leagues was seen to whisper aremark to his neighbor onthe Ministerial bench, It was the word “gem” which had made Lord Salisbury shudder and say, ‘The blood will out.’” In Florida the tramps of the North who went South to enjoy the delicious winter weather paddle along the sub-tropical rivers, with the odors of orange and lemon trees in the air; and when they are hungry they go ashore and compel lone women to cook dinners for them. When the summer comes they will leave the glades of Florida and come to the cool North for green corn and succotash and musk melons. A select few may be expected here (Provi- dence permitting) as early a8 strawberry time. ARCHBISHOP PURCELL'S INDEBTED- NESS. AN ASSIGNMENT TO TRUSTEES CONSUMMATED— LISt OF THE PROPERTY AND MODE OF SET« TLEMENT. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Crxcrxnatt, Ohio, Jan. 19, 1879. Some two or three weeks since it was telegraphed to the HrraLp that committees of laymen promi- nent in the Catholic Church had undertaken to settle up the business affairs of Archbishop Purcell, and were about to convert such property into cash as could be dispose of for the purpose of paying off his indebtedncss to parishioners who had deposited money in his hands and with his brother, who was joint custodian with him in these matters, Unex- pected difficulties arose in carring out this plan, and it was not finally comploted until yesterday, when the committee was vested with full powers. THE PROPERTY. Tho property consists of the Cathedral and Arch+ bishop's residence, the Cathedral school buildi St. Joseph's Seminary, the old St. John’s Hospit property, now unoccupied; a tract of twelve acres known as the Considine bequest, together with a large amount jortgage notes and accounts, all of whicli will be rned over to Father Quinn, of the Cathedral; J.C, Albrinck, of Holy Trinity Church; Charles Stewart, wholesale paper dealer; Joseph Rodgers, of the Marine Railway, and Joseph Greever, These trustees are to issue bonds secured by mort- wage on oll the real estate for the entire amount of the Archbishop's indebtodness and pay off with them as le, ‘The bonds ure to run from three nd to bear five per cent interest, As realize money on mortgages and other securities the, to take up these bonde, apd it is expected that country churches in the diocese which have been assisted by the Archbishop will be able to do much toward relieving him of his liabili- ties, ‘These abilities, to the surprise of every one, foot up nearly $500,000. MRS, NATHAN'S FUNERAL, ‘The funeral of tho late Mrs. Benjamin Nathan was laryely attended yesterday by representatives from nearly all the Jewish benevolent socicties and syna gogues in this city, Quite & number of Wall street bankers and brokers were also at the mansion in Fifth avenue, where the religious services were conducted by the Rey. Dr. de Sola Mendes, of the Ninetecnth street congregation. The directors of the Orphan Asylum and of the Mount Sinat Hospital, of which the husband of the deceased was president at the time of his brutal murder, assembled at the Buckingham Hotel and proceeded i house of mourning, where the immediate relatives of the Nathan family had preceded them. After the services the remains of the deceased were removed to the hearse followed by Frederick, Harmon and. Washington Nathan anda Julius J. Lyons as chief mourners. The interment took place in the burial ground of the Shearith Israel congreyation at Cypress Hills, It in understood that the deceased lady leaves a fortune of nearly 482,000,000, and that her be Dp ag bequests to*numerous charitable su. ve

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